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How Targeted Ads May Make Employers the Target of a Lawsuit
Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers were free to discriminate against employees for almost any reason – whether it be their...
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Newville PLC
- May 18, 2016
$250,000.00 Settlement for Newville Client Who Was Urinated On In North Dakota Oil Field
On Wednesday, Attorney Joshua Newville joined the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Ebeltoft Sickler in requesting that the...
Newville PLC
- Dec 4, 2015
Newville Files Discrimination Case Against Fargo Hospital On Behalf of Transgender Employee
Yesterday, on behalf of a former transgender employee denied access to the locker room consistent with her gender, Joshua Newville filed...
Newville PLC
- Sep 13, 2015
$15 Million Dollar Verdict in Sex Harassment and Wrongful Termination Case
On Thursday, a Miami federal jury ordered Moreno Farms Inc., a produce farming operation in southern Florida, to pay $17.4 million to...
Newville PLC
- Jun 2, 2015
Abercrombie Loses Religious Headscarf Case At Supreme Court
In a nearly unanimous Supreme Court decision released yesterday, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch...
Josh Newville
- May 3, 2015
The Supreme Court To Address Marriage Equality Litigation
Historic, unprecedented, monumental… no single word fully encapsulates the magnitude and impact the past three years have had on marriage...
Josh Newville
- Dec 30, 2014
U.S. Attorney General Says Title VII Protects Transgender Individuals From Employment Discrimination
In a memo dated December 15, 2014 from United States Attorney General Eric Holder to United States Attorneys and other officials, the...
Newville PLC
- May 9, 2014
May 2014: Newville Files Class Action Pay Discrimination Lawsuit Against Lab Companies
On Friday, May 2, Joshua Newville filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The...
Josh Newville
- Oct 2, 2013
Employment Law & “The Woman Question”
I’ll admit it. When I first learned about ”The Woman Question” during my first year of a law school, I was immediately concerned that...
Josh Newville
- Jun 28, 2013
SCOTUS Kills DOMA and Prop 8; Sexual Orientation Discrimination Lives On
It’s been a busy week for employment law and civil rights. The impact of the past week’s Supreme Court decisions on these two areas of...
Josh Newville
- Jun 24, 2013
Supreme Court Weakens Title VII Protections
From Justice Ginsburg’s dissent in today’s Supreme Court Decision in Vance v. Ball State, which narrowly defined “supervisor” so as to...
Josh Newville
- Mar 4, 2013
Not My Fault, Your Honor. She’s Just Too Hot.
It’s a tactic long used by defendants in both civil and criminal cases. From charges of rape to sexual harassment, men take the stand...
Josh Newville
- Jan 29, 2013
Jan 2013: Suit Against Tech Company for Sex Discrimination
Representing a woman who worked at a Twin Cities technology company, our firm has initiated a sex discrimination lawsuit against the...
Josh Newville
- Jul 7, 2012
Twin Cities Lead Nation in Racial Unemployment Gap
In Brown v. Board (U.S. 1954), the United States Supreme Court ordered that public schools across the nation integrate, supposedly...
Josh Newville
- Jun 12, 2012
Lawsuit Alleges Old Boys’ Club in Young Industry
In Bradwell v. Illinois, (U.S. 1873), the Supreme Court declared that allowing a woman to practice law would surely destroy her...
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